More light poles down in Keego Harbor, officials blame speeders

Doug Waldon, Keego Harbor DPW Foreman, next to where a light pole once stood along the curve on Cass Lake Road, pictured Thursday January 9, 2014. The poles cost $5,000 each to replace. (Vaughn Gurganian-The Oakland Press)

“We had extensive community meetings and a lengthy planning process that resulted in reducing the curves,” he said.

“Today they are much less abrupt than they were. People need to slow down and drive appropriately through the curve. There is no way that curve (near Stapleton) could be eliminated altogether unless we took out an entire neighborhood, which is not going to happen.”

A new senior housing complex has been approved near the curve.

Bryson suggested, “The city could require the senior center to do plantings or something to cushion the blow and increase the visibility of the curve.”

Keego councilman Sid Rubin said the housing developer is aware of the curve.

“That won’t solve the speed limit issues for the school and the pedestrian traffic along Cass Lake Road,” Rubin said.

“We need to partner up with the Road Commission and come up with a speed solution.”

Grice of Auburn Hills said there are light poles on a curve in his community.

“It’s one of those things — but accidents do happen,” he said.

“We lose trees, poles, signs — everything in a right-of-way can become a target.”

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